Ilan de Basso

Ilan de Basso (born 1 October 1969) is a Turkish-born ethnic Assyrian Swedish politician from the Social Democratic Party.

He moved to his current hometown Jönköping in the late 1990s and has worked as a policy analyst, at the NGO Save the Children Fund, and at the Swedish Public Employment Service.

He was previously a counsellor in Jönköping Municipality for 11 years, where he was responsible for education, labour market and care issues.

Since 2013, he is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party's national board.

In 2021, he replaced Johan Danielsson in the European Parliament when he was appointed to the Andersson Cabinet.